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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex leptonervia
|accepted_authority=(Fernald) Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=16: 214. 1914
|year=1914
}}
|common_names=Carex leptonervé
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex laxiflora var. leptonervia
|authority=Fernald
|publication_title=Rhodora
|publication_place=8: 184 1906
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Laxiflorae;Carex leptonervia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Carex sect. Laxiflorae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex leptonervia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 432, 434, 439
|treatment_page=page 435
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>densely tufted, ascending, lax or, occasionally, decumbent, 12–44 cm × 0.7–1.2 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths brown; sheaths 3–24 mm, serrulate; blades ascending, midrib well developed abaxially, lateral veins developed, flat, 10–32 cm × 3–10 mm, blades of overwintering leaves smooth. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of proximal spike 0–8 cm, distal lateral spike not exserted; of terminal spike to 0.2 cm. <b>Bracts</b> 10–30 × 2–7 mm, 2d pistillate bract frequently overtops terminal and distal lateral spike, blade of distal lateral spike linear, narrower than spikes, widest bract blade of distalmost lateral spike 0.5–3.4 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> 4(–5) per culm; lateral spikes 9–22 × 2.8–4 mm; terminal spike linear, 7–16 × 1.2–2 mm, arising from same bract as distal lateral spike, usually surpassed by distal bract. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 2–2.5 × 1–1.8 mm, apex acute or apiculate. <b>Staminate</b> scales ovate, 2.2–2.6 × 0.8–1 mm, margins hyaline or slightly brown tinged, apex acute. <b>Anthers</b> 1.6–2 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 5–14 per spike, overlapping or slightly scattered on proximal spike, ascending or spreading, 8–18-veined, 2–3 veins conspicuous, others obscure, elliptic-obovate, 2.2–3.2 × 1–1.5 mm, membranous; beak abruptly to slightly curved, 0.3–1.1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid, 1.8–2.8 × 0.8–1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet deciduous, evergreen, or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, higher elevations southward
|elevation=0–1800 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex leptonervia
|author=
|authority=(Fernald) Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex laxiflora var. leptonervia
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet deciduous, evergreen, or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, higher elevations southward
|elevation=0–1800 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1914
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Laxiflorae
|species=Carex leptonervia
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